I wonder what the ratings were for channels showing old shows e.g. BBC 2 and BBC 4 yesterday, and the Great/That's/Rewind/Talking Pics channels in general? I simply don't watch modern day TV, apart from live football.

New Year's Eve. 3pm.

Matt Forde's career in comedy is just inexplicable, given that it was somehow achieved and is perpetuated despite a lack of any recognisable skill or talent at the art.

#Christmas 1968 Radio Times: Featuring Messiah; Friday Night Is Music Night; Any Questions?; Home Town; The Jimmy Young Show; The Tony Blackburn Show; Home This Afternoon; Music at Night; Programme News; Midnight Newsroom; Christmas in Trinidad and Tobago; Charlie Chester; A Close Shave and more

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: five days after the series ended Russell Harty Goes Upstairs Downstairs attempts to talk to and interact with cast members in and out of character simultaneously before absolutely shattering any remaining illusion at the end.

BLUE VELVET (David Lynch, 1990)

UN experts raise ‘grave concern’ over treatment of Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers

Karma knows your address.

Classic Jim Henson ad.

A human?

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Junior Kick Start ran for nine series but there's only one moment most people remember. Some say that one man in the background is still laughing to this day.

I could care less.

JICTAR's Top 20 shows for 1970. Miss World topped the chart with 23.21 million viewers (homes viewing figure multiplied by 2.2)

JICTAR Top 20 for Christmas 1977

Russ Abbot and the Black Abbot lads tackling Live And Let Die - live from Jolly's in Stoke! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTHV...

Watching What's Up, Doc? on BBC 2.

This will piss the right wingers off, but I’d say this chap is far more a patriot that the wankers painting roundabouts and hanging flags. What a legend!

FACT OF THE DAY. 26 December 1991. Supreme Soviet of the USSR met to officially end the Soviet Union. It was an unintended consequence of Gorbachev’s reforms within the Soviet Union which ironically ended with the destruction of the very system he had tried to save.

The George Harrison doc never happened in the end, it was suggested they would change some bits because of his family's wishes, but it was never finished

Artist’s impression of an unbuilt section of the West Cross Route with Stamford Bridge on the left and Earl’s Court in the distance. The artwork is by John Dean Monroe Harvey, produced as part of Husband & Co’s consulting engineer’s report to the Greater London Council in May 1970. Merry Christmas!

Can't be true. No way there are three Labour voters left.

Nighty night.

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Visited my younger brother last night. He has a friend whose life is so full of incident that my brother has set the ringtone for him to the drum beat from the Eastenders theme tune.

Staring up at the aurora shimmering above. So beautiful.

Can't believe it's 5 years since Boris Johnson died in agony. I still think about it every day.

"When is bins?"

....and When Harry Met Sally to finish off the evening.

Ah, I'm guessing part two is paedogeddon.

It's better than his song about gang rape though.

Four hundred children and a crap in the field #totp

Off for a shower #totp

COMPOST CORNER!

Wummaging awownd in the undergwoph. #TOTP

When a child is born....it shouldn't go anywhere near the #totp studio.

Magic Fly is still a banger tho, innit. #TotP

Our Frida about to lay one on the beardy sod. #TOTP

Partridges Sir! #totp

Partridge #totp

Big mates with Martin Bell, former MP and BBC international affairs correspondent #TOTP

Biggest selling single in the UK in 1977 #totp